Ralph Baric, professor of microbiology and immunology, successfully created "an infectious clone of the urbani strain of the SARS coronavirus" by July 2003 at the U.S. "Army's top bio-level three labs in Maryland," according to an article published by UNC-Chapel Hill in 2003.
Results of scientific research and the related patent registration information have shown that Ralph Baric could be called the first person who synthesized a coronavirus.
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